The San Luis Obispo county election officials say as of yesterday, republicans are turning in more ballots than democrats in the county. Tommy Gong says that more than 45 thousand ballots were returned as of yesterday afternoon, after the mail was delivered and processed. Of those 45 thousand ballots, 18 thousand were from registered republicans.…

If you missed the deadline to register to vote, you’ve got another chance. New legislation allows voters who missed the October 22nd deadline to complete a conditional voter registration process and cast their ballots at the county office up to and including election day. All votes will be counted after the elections official verifies the…

A murder in Grover Beach is raising a lot of questions. On October 25th, police officers conducting a welfare check at a condominium found the body of 64-year-old Athena Valentiny. She had been stabbed to death. Valentiny worked as a nurse at the Men’s Colony prison. According to Cal Coast Times….early last month, a mayoral…

An attempted murder trial involving a San Miguel suspect takes a strange twist. Jim Pinedo is accused of shooting his girlfriend in the neck. The victim refuses to testify against him. The DA’s office says Pinedo was already facing charges for physically abusing his girlfriend when he became enraged that she didn’t do enough to…

Tonight, the Paso Robles school district will conduct a forum on the $8 million dollar aquatic complex. Groundbreaking for the two swimming pools at Paso Robles high school took place last April. Still no pools. The superintendent says the aquatics complex was approved by voters through measure M, but voters who live in Pleasant Valley…

The San Luis Obispo girls volleyball team beat Templeton 3-1 last night to advance to the semifinals of the cif central section playoffs. The San Luis Obispo Tigers take on top-seeded Exeter tomorrow night as the CIF central section playoffs. The Morro Bay football coach is fired over comments he made that were described as…

Otters win again. That’s how the director of the Monterey Otter Project describes it. The US supreme court declines a petition to reconsider a ruling by the ninth circuit court of appeal to reinstate a no otter zone that stretched from Point Conception south to the Mexican border. Steve Shimek of the Monterey Otter Project…

A Los Osos man got seven years in state prison yesterday for trying to steal a bicycle from a home in San Luis two years ago. 33-year-old Cole Benjamin Malone sentenced by judge Dodie Harmon to seven years after he was found guilty by a jury of first degree residential burglary. He also did time…

An inmate escaped yesterday from the California Men’s Colony. 26-year-old David Gray Hall drove away in a state vehicle, described as a white 1997 ford Aerostar van. Gray was serving a five-year sentence for second-degree robbery. He’s been at the prison since 2015. He was scheduled to be released next year. He’s describes as an…